Gabrielle Roy
Gabrielle Roy was a French-Canadian author born and raised in Saint Boniface, Manitoba in 1909; her hometown us now a part of Winnipeg, Manitoba today. Gabrielle started out studying to be a teacher, but ended up settling in Quebec to live as a sketch artist and continue her writing. She had lived in Europe for a little time but had to move back to Canada when World War II started in 1939. She had written novels such as Bonheur occasion (1945), known in English as The Tin Flute, and Alexandre Chenevert (1954). She was married in 1947 to Marcel Carbotte and died at the age of 74 in 1983. In 1985 the film Tramp at the Door was releases, which was dedicated to her and is heard to depict her childhood. She has been honored with many different awards, but she has also been honored in a less traditional way than most authors. On the back of the twenty dollar bill there is a quote by her saying:
“Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?”
Gabrielle Roy was the first author to set her novel in the working-class slum of Montreal; this first documented a profound change in French-Canadian life. She has also written novels of powerful social criticism. She uses her books as a purpose to expose the effects of poverty and chronic unemployment on members of French-Canadian families who are powerless to change their situation. She bases her most famous novel on the thousands of families suffering the effects of social and economic injustices. She hoped that by exposing the conditions that they would change for the better. Her third novel, Alexadre Chenevert, cassier’, is her most complex novel philosophically. Roy’s purpose is to show what is precious and unique in the main characters individual anonymity.
While alive, Gabrielle Roy had become known as quite a feminist. Not only are women and their social, economic and sexual exploitation central issues but her main point of view in all of them is essentially feminist, which is any action seeking to
“Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?”
Gabrielle Roy was the first author to set her novel in the working-class slum of Montreal; this first documented a profound change in French-Canadian life. She has also written novels of powerful social criticism. She uses her books as a purpose to expose the effects of poverty and chronic unemployment on members of French-Canadian families who are powerless to change their situation. She bases her most famous novel on the thousands of families suffering the effects of social and economic injustices. She hoped that by exposing the conditions that they would change for the better. Her third novel, Alexadre Chenevert, cassier’, is her most complex novel philosophically. Roy’s purpose is to show what is precious and unique in the main characters individual anonymity.
While alive, Gabrielle Roy had become known as quite a feminist. Not only are women and their social, economic and sexual exploitation central issues but her main point of view in all of them is essentially feminist, which is any action seeking to